SkyWard, a Portland, Ore.-based company that has developed a software management system for the dispatching, tracking and logging of commercial drone flights, announced it has raised a $4.1 million round in expansion seed from Draper Associates, Founders Co-Op, Norwest Venture Partners, Techstars Ventures, Verizon Ventures, and Voyager Capital. Voyager prevously led a $1.5 million seed round in July 2014, according to Thomson Reuters. David Famolari of Verizon Ventures and Ari Newman of Techstars Ventures were named observers on Skyward’s board of directors.

Urban Airship, a provider of customer engagement solutions for brands, has closed $21 million in Series D funding. The investors included August Capital, Foundry Group, Franklin Park Associates, QuestMark Partners, True Ventures and Verizon Ventures. Also, the company has named Erin Hintz as chief marketing officer and Mike Musson as senior vice president of strategy and business development.

CloudBees Inc, which provides continuous delivery solutions, has closed $23.5 million in funding in a round led by existing backer Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other investors included Matrix Partners, Verizon Ventures and Blue Cloud Ventures.

Live communication platform Rounds has raised $12 million in Series B funding. Sequoia Capital led the round with participation from other investors that included Samsung Ventures, Verizon Ventures, Rhodium and Draper Associates. According to the firm, the capital infusion will be used for growth and expansion.

Apio Systems, which provides a mobile-based transportation safety platform, announced it has raised a $5 million Series A round led by Verizon Ventures, the investment arm of Verizon Communications. Additional investors include Lerer Hippeau, Transdev and East Rock Capital. Apio Systems, which has offices in Crystal City, Va., and Warwick, N.Y., has now raised more than $6 million in total funding.

Flint Mobile has raised $9.4 million in Series C funding. Verizon Ventures, the investing arm of mobile and broadband provider Verizon Communications, led the round with participation from Digicel, Storm Ventures, True Ventures and Peninsula Ventures. Based in Redwood City, Calif., Flint Mobile is a mobile payment service for small businesses.

NTT DOCOMO Ventures and Verizon Ventures led a $10.8 million Series B funding in Kinvey, an enterprise software business. Existing investors Avalon Ventures and Atlas Ventures have joined the funding round. Kinvey’s has raised a total of $17.8 million.

MobileRQ said Wednesday that it has received $1.3 million in funding. The investors were Verizon Ventures, Coremix Capital, Rogue Ventures and TiE Oregon. Based in Portland, Oregon, MobileRQ is a mobile marketing platform provider.

Glympse, a location sharing technology company, has raised an additional $12 million in Series C financing, with participation from new investors UMC Capital, Verizon Ventures and additional unnamed strategic investors. Existing investors Ignition Partners, Menlo Ventures and Naya Ventures also participated in the funding round. The investment brings total capital raised to about $20 million.

Newlans, a developer of radio frequency solutions for mobile devices, has raised an additional $5 million from Verizon Ventures to complete its Series B round. In February, the Acton, Mass.-based company raised $15 million in a Series B funding round led by Intel Capital and including Paladin Capital Management and Lockheed Martin Corp. The company has now raised $27 million in equity funding, according to Thomson Reuters (publisher of peHUB).

Mobile rewards network Kiip has secured financing from Japanese Internet business Digital Garage. The strategic investor joins the company’s most recent $11 million round of Series B funding. The company is backed by Relay Ventures, Hummer Winblad, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, Crosslink Capital and others.

Earlier this week, Nihal Mehta (pictured) announced he launched LocalResponse, a New York-based developer of a Web-based tool that allows local businesses to respond to check-in posts on social media sites with tailored marketing campaigns. Mehta co-founded the company, previously known as Buzzd, as a social city guide for location-based services. The company had raised about […]